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- EnterDaMatrix, on 10/31/2007, -2/+28Nvidia, release some specs already. You have to match your competition or else you will fail. My next computer will have ATI graphics unless you step up Nvidia. I like you, I really do, but I'll readily put my trust in a few thousand nerds before a few dozen secretive Nvidia devs.
- billizm, on 10/15/2007, -0/+11So anything almost done is just not done with no other status in between? Ever heard of milestones?
- davidlin, on 10/15/2007, -0/+11"So what is missing now for a acceptable 2D driver?
· NV10 EXA needs to be implemented or
· NV04 needs to calm that IRQ storm
· NV20 will use NV10 EXA
· NV30 EXA needs to get faster (with still some fallbacks, which should be accelerated not software)
· NV40 EXA is working but not as fast as it could
· NV50 text mode setting for a very basic driver (no Xv yet)"
Though looking at the progress of the RadeonHD driver, who will have stable 2D first? RadeonHD for ATI X2000 graphics or Nouveau? Nouveau seems to have problems with the GeForce 8 (NV50) and will likely have a whole additional set of problems with GeForce 9. - mancat, on 10/14/2007, -0/+7There are still fleets of older but decent systems out there that have TNT/TNT2/M64 boards installed, or integrated on the motherboard. Many P3/P4 Dell Dimension/Optiplex machines have M64 chips. I guarantee that there are lots of businesses or governments that would like to use these perfectly usable machines with Linux, especially in poorer countries.
Besides, these chips all have common instruction sets. It's really not THAT hard to implement the support. - inactive, on 10/14/2007, -0/+5Drivers for RSX chip in the PS3 would be nice as lack of support for hardware acceleration in linux is the main limitation in using it as a computer despite the amazing computational power the cell processor brings to the plate.
- mtekk, on 10/31/2007, -0/+5Well since RadeonHD is getting support from AMD/ATI, i'd say it will probably support the X2000 series before Nouveau gets NV50 working fully.
- twljagflba, on 10/13/2007, -0/+5To some extent I would agree with you on that. However, for their architecture that is unified, it isn't (or shouldn't be) too much more work to add the support. It does seem though that they are spending quite a bit of time on specific work for the very early NVIDIA hardware where if they spent that extra time on the GeForce 6+ series I would see it as being more beneficial to more people.
- andyakadum, on 10/14/2007, -0/+4RSX drivers!!!
F'king awsome. Dugg. - MacSuxWindozSux, on 10/31/2007, -1/+5I could see nVidia leap frogging ATI and just open sourcing their main driver.
It would solve this issue for them.
I'm not sure whether the company would ever do this, however. - EvilDude, on 10/16/2007, -0/+3I'm more interested in the PS3's GPU being accessed for acceleration.
- superjamie, on 10/14/2007, -0/+3No, this driver not being commercial-quality stable does NOT make this a "non-announcement".
It's reporting on the current progress of something that alot of people find interesting, and are looking forward to. And likewise, if people waited for official versions to come out, you'd have the "version releases are not news" league screaming that is also a non-announcement.
This is called a "news site", it keeps everyone "informed" as to "current events". If you don't care for the article, don't read it and move along. - inactive, on 10/13/2007, -2/+4Intresting project, i hope its more stable than the current nvidia drivers.
- inactive, on 10/15/2007, -3/+5I would normally agree with you but Nvidia does a great job supporting their Unix drivers and that's all I need/want. In what drivers are concerned I don't really care that much about openess. In a perfect world ALL hardware manufacturers would support Unix OSes as Nvidia does.
- andycr512, on 10/14/2007, -0/+2Let's hope we'll be playing UT3 using open source drivers by 2009!
- qwuinc, on 10/14/2007, -0/+2@rpgmaker:
You would start caring about openness the moment your $VENDOR stopped supporting your older hardware with newer kernel/software. Nvidia's been doing good job with the drivers and legacy support, but if the drivers were truly open there would be real insurance that you can keep using old hardware and will not be forced to upgrade on the vendor's whim.
And then there's the whole ideological side to the issue. - Shootfast, on 10/31/2007, -0/+2I sooo wish that would happen
- EnterDaMatrix, on 10/15/2007, -0/+2I agree with you that Nvidia deserves credit for their drivers, but I think that now the ATI driver has potential to surpass the Nvidia driver. ATI's hardware is probably on par with Nvidia's, but their drivers are crap. With great open ATI drivers, their value goes up tremendously. If Nvidia opened their drivers, including legacy, I would go with them immediately. I somewhat dislike ATI's decision to only open their new chipsets, it seems like a cheap way to spur sales from Linux customers.
- patpi, on 10/13/2007, -0/+1"Ahuillet is asking for testers of his NV04 code. And if someone is willing to write some documentation, please contact him too. He will give you any info you'll need, but he currently hasn't the time to do it himself (a good newbie task).
If you have a PPC based system, please do test and report back to marcheu."
it was most important in this issue of TiNDC - Fergy, on 10/14/2007, -1/+2Your reply almost made a point... Almost
- jhuebel, on 10/15/2007, -7/+8How can something be "almost stable"? Doesn't that make it "unstable" and therefore make this an non-announcement?
- andycr512, on 10/14/2007, -1/+2In other words, it's quasi-stable, or Windows-other-than-XP-or-2000-stable if you prefer.
- anshuman, on 10/13/2007, -0/+1humm, i wish this gets used by vmware to create a 3d driver set and atleast making Compiz like effect usable .
- ST0N3, on 10/14/2007, -2/+1am i the only one who can't get the article to display?
- Avaseal, on 10/14/2007, -4/+0It's French, *****. lawl jk
- jy802, on 10/13/2007, -11/+6Why do the developers spend their time on NV0x hardware? It's barely used these days... While not too many Linux users have GeForce 7 or 8 yet, by the time that's considered mainstream, hopefully the developers will have reverse engineered these cards reliably... instead of wasting time REing hardware that is years old. If you want support for that ancient hardware, just beg NVIDIA for them... Like AMD did! But come on guys, do something better than spending all this time with the old hardware. You can pickup a new graphics card that is much more recent than that for what, $20?
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